Iceland
Subtitle: modern processes and past environments
By: [edited] by C. Caseldine ... [et al].
Contributors: Caseldine, Chris, 1951-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Developments in Quaternary science -- 5.
Publisher: Elsevier; Elsevier Science
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Geology, Stratigraphic -- Holocene.; Geology -- Iceland.; Geodynamics -- Iceland.; Paleoceanography -- Holocene.; Paleoceanography -- Iceland.; Geomorphology -- Iceland.; Paleoecology -- Holocene.; Paleoecology -- Iceland.; Paleogeography -- Holocene.; Paleogeography -- Iceland.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-397).
Table of contents: title: Late Quaternary marine sediment studies of the Icelandic shelf - palaeoceanography, land/ice sheet/ocean interactions and deglaciation : a review / John T. Andrews; title: Relative sea level change in Iceland : new aspects of the Weichselian deglaciation of Iceland / Hreggviður Norðdahl and Halldór Pétursson; title: Recent developments in oceanographic research in Icelandic waters / Steingrímur Jónsson and Héðinn Valdimarsson; title: The glacier-marginal land systems of Iceland / David J.A. Evans; title: Subglacial volcanic activity in Iceland / Magnús T. Guðmundsson; title: Icelandic jökulhlaup impacts / Andrew J. Russell ... [et al.]; title: Environmental and climatic effects from atmospheric SO₂ mass-loading by Icelandic flood lava eruptions / Þorvaldur Þórðarson; title: Holocene glacier history / Maria Wastl and Johann Stötter; title: Variations of termini of glaciers in Iceland in recent centuries and their connection with climate / Oddur Sigurðsson; title: Local knowledge and travellers' tales : a selection of climatic observations in Iceland / Astrid Ogilvie; title: Chemical weathering, chemical denudation and the CO₂ budget for Iceland / Sigurður Reynir Gíslason; title: Icelandic soils / Ólafur Arnalds; title: The Holocene vegetation history of Iceland, state-of-the-art and future research / Margrét Hallsdóttir and Chris Caseldine.